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20202026
most citedNuclear dynamics of singlet exciton fission: a direct observation in pentacene single crystals

61 citations · 362 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Coherent two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy integrated with confocal back focal plane microscopy

Trideep Kawde, Pavel Trofimov, Anton Trenczek +3

We introduce a setup for coherent two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy in the pump-probe reflection geometry that is integrated with a confocal back focal plane imaging microsco…

cond-mat.other2026

Real-Time Formation of a Landau Polaron

Priya Nagpal, Arnab Ghosh, Helene Seiler +2

Polarons are electronic excitations dressed by a self-consistent lattice distortion, yet their formation has not been directly resolved in real time. We develop a microscopic lines…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 8 cited

Momentum-Resolved Signatures of Carrier Screening Effects on Electron-Phonon Coupling in MoS

Yiming Pan, Patrick-Nigel Hildebrandt, Daniela Zahn +5

Electron-phonon coupling is central to many condensed matter phenomena. Harnessing these effects for novel material functionality in materials always involves non-equilibrium elect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Element-specific ultrafast lattice dynamics in monolayer WSe2

H. Jung, S. Dong, D. Zahn +8

We study monolayer WSe2 using ultrafast electron diffraction. We introduce an approach to quantitatively extract atomic-site-specific information, providing an element-specific vie…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Observation of multi-directional energy transfer in a hybrid plasmonic-excitonic nanostructure

Tommaso Pincelli, Thomas Vasileiadis, Shuo Dong +15

Hybrid plasmonic devices involve a nanostructured metal supporting localized surface plasmons to amplify light-matter interaction, and a non-plasmonic material to functionalize cha…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Direct observation of ultrafast lattice distortions during exciton-polaron formation in lead-halide perovskite nanocrystals

Hélène Seiler, Daniela Zahn, Victoria C. A. Taylor +4

The microscopic origin of slow carrier cooling in lead-halide perovskites remains debated, and has direct implications for applications. Slow carrier cooling has been attributed to…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 18 cited

Intrinsic energy flow in laser-excited 3 ferromagnets

Daniela Zahn, Florian Jakobs, Hélène Seiler +6

Ultrafast magnetization dynamics are governed by energy flow between electronic, magnetic, and lattice degrees of freedom. A quantitative understanding of these dynamics must be ba…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 28 cited

Photoinduced ultrafast transition of the local correlated structure in chalcogenide phase-change materials

Yingpeng Qi, Nianke Chen, Thomas Vasileiadis +4

Revealing the bonding and time-evolving atomic dynamics in functional materials with complex lattice structures can update the fundamental knowledge on rich physics therein, and al…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 18 cited

Traversing double-well potential energy surfaces: photoinduced concurrent intralayer and interlayer structural transitions in XTe2 (X=Mo, W)

Yingpeng Qi, Mengxue Guan, Daniela Zahn +6

Manipulating crystal structure and the corresponding electronic properties in quantum materials provides opportunities for the exploration of exotic physics and practical applicati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 28 cited

Multi-phonon diffuse scattering in solids from first-principles: Application to layered crystals and 2D materials

Marios Zacharias, Hélène Seiler, Fabio Caruso +4

Time-resolved diffuse scattering experiments have gained increasing attention due to their potential to reveal non-equilibrium dynamics of crystal lattice vibrations with full mome…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 28 cited

Efficient first-principles methodology for the calculation of the all-phonon inelastic scattering in solids

Marios Zacharias, Hélène Seiler, Fabio Caruso +4

Inelastic scattering experiments are key methods for mapping the full dispersion of fundamental excitations of solids in the ground as well as non-equilibrium states. A quantitativ…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Ultrafast lattice dynamics and electron-phonon coupling in platinum extracted with a global fitting approach for time-resolved polycrystalline diffraction data

Daniela Zahn, Hélène Seiler, Yoav William Windsor +1

Quantitative knowledge of electron-phonon coupling is important for many applications as well as for the fundamental understanding of nonequilibrium relaxation processes. Time-reso…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 61 cited

Nuclear dynamics of singlet exciton fission: a direct observation in pentacene single crystals

Hélène Seiler, Marcin Krynski, Daniela Zahn +7

Singlet exciton fission (SEF) is a key process in the development of efficient opto-electronic devices. An aspect that is rarely probed directly, and yet has a tremendous impact on…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 22 cited

Exchange-striction driven ultrafast nonthermal lattice dynamics in NiO

Y. W. Windsor, D. Zahn, R. Kamrla +7

We use femtosecond electron diffraction to study ultrafast lattice dynamics in the highly correlated antiferromagnetic (AF) semiconductor NiO. Using the scattering vector (Q) depen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 41 cited

Lattice dynamics and ultrafast energy flow between electrons, spins, and phonons in a 3d ferromagnet

Daniela Zahn, Florian Jakobs, Yoav William Windsor +8

The ultrafast dynamics of magnetic order in a ferromagnet are governed by the interplay between electronic, magnetic and lattice degrees of freedom. In order to obtain a microscopi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 60 cited

Accessing the anisotropic non-thermal phonon populations in black phosphorus

Hélène Seiler, Daniela Zahn, Marios Zacharias +8

We combine femtosecond electron diffuse scattering experiments and first-principles calculations of the coupled electron-phonon dynamics to provide a detailed momentum-resolved pic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 48 cited

Anisotropic Nonequilibrium Lattice Dynamics of Black Phosphorus

Daniela Zahn, Patrick-Nigel Hildebrandt, Thomas Vasileiadis +4

Black phosphorus has recently attracted significant attention for its highly anisotropic properties. A variety of ultrafast optical spectroscopies has been applied to probe the car…